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In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to create a high key glow effect, which is a fancy way of saying we'll be applying a glow only to the highlights in an image. This effect works especially well with wedding portraits since it's great for adding a romantic, magical look to your photos, and wedding portraits usually contain lots of bright white areas to work with. We'll see how to easily s

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to create a text portrait effect. In other words, we'll create the illusion that the image seen in the photo is actually being created by multiple lines of type. I've seen this effect used with many celebrity photos, from Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe to Michael Jackson, David Beckham, even Barack Obama. Of course, you don't need a photo of someone famo

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to simulate the look of infrared photography in Photoshop. We'll be taking a look at Photoshop's Channels palette and seeing how to isolate a color channel as well as how to apply filters to color channels, we'll be using adjustment layers, specifically the Channel Mixer adjustment layer to adjust how much impact each individual channel

Before we begin... This version of our Adding Sunlight Through Trees tutorial was originally published for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. If you're using Photoshop CC or CS6, please see our updated and expanded Sunlight Through Trees Effect tutorial. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to add beams of sunlight through trees, which is not only a great way to make an image look

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll look at how to quickly and easily add a soft focus and glow effect to a photo, which also happens to do a nice job of boosting the image's contrast and color saturation. I've been using this technique with my photos for years and it's still just as popular today. Whether you're a wedding photographer, nature photographer or you simply enjoy taking photos of family

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to enhance the sky in a photo, bringing out details in the clouds, improving the contrast and increasing color saturation, and we can do all these things at once using a very simple technique. Often times when taking pictures outdoors, the camera exposes the shot based on the brightness of the subject you're focusing on, which is fine except that it tend

Before we begin... This version of our Sparkle Trail tutorial was written for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. If you're using Photoshop CC or CS6, you'll want to follow along with our updated and expanded Photoshop Sparkle Brush And Motion Trail Effect tutorial. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to add a sparkle trail to a photo using a custom Photoshop sparkle brush we'll be creating

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to create a bit of an optical illusion, filling one photo with many smaller photos, or at least, many copies of a couple of smaller photos. The number of smaller photos you use for this effect is completely up to you. If you view the photo from a distance, you'll see the larger main photo, and if you view it up close, you'll see all the smaller photo

Before we begin... This version of our Warm Golden Sunsets tutorial is for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. For Photoshop CC and CS6, see our fully updated version, which includes a video of this tutorial. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to look at how to easily improve and enhance a photo of a sunset using a Gradient Map! When I think of the perfect sunset photo, my mind immediately fil

Version note: This tutorial was written for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. Photoshop CC and CS6 users will want to check out our all-new Water Reflection Effect tutorial. In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo. It's a very easy effect to create and you can add it to any photo you like, although it tends to work best with images that don't al

Learn how easy it is to fill your night skies with a field of stars in Photoshop! You'll learn how to create stars in Photoshop, how to add a glow and color to the stars, and how to blend the stars effect with your images! There's nothing quite as peaceful as being outdoors at night, looking up at a clear sky, and seeing an endless field of stars stretching off in all directions. And there are few

In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use Photoshop's Layer Styles to easily make text look as if it's made out of plastic. To create the effect, we're going to be using some "contours" that we'll be loading in, since they're not readily available to us by default, but don't worry, loading them is easy, and so is everything else we'll be doing. Here's the effect we'r

In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you'll be losing a lot of detail with this effect. Creating the effect is as simple as duplicating some layers, applying a few filters, and usi

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going learn how to add reflections, or at least, different reflections, to sunglasses. This is a popular Photoshop effect and opens up a world of creative and artistic possibilities depending on who is wearing the sunglasses and who or what you have them looking at. Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial: If we look closely, we can see that there

In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to take a single photograph and turn it into a collage of polaroids, with each polaroid containing a small section of the overall image. You can use this effect with lots of different types of images, whether it's a photo of one person or several people. It's great for photos of family or friends, vacation photos, or even as a creative effect for

In this Photoshop Text Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to engulf text in an explosion of light and color. There's quite a few steps involved in this text effect, and we'll be using a couple of filters that are not used very often in everyday Photoshop work, but creating the effect is quite simple and the end result is definitely worth the effort. Using Photoshop CS6? You'll want to follow our fu

Before we begin: Please note that this tutorial was originally written for Photoshop CS5 and earlier. If you're using Photoshop CC or CS6, you'll want to check out our fully updated Turning Text Into Gold With Photoshop tutorial. In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to turn text into gold using Photoshop's Layer Styles. We'll even throw in some sparkles at the end to m

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